Why are blind people ignored by websites?
Despite the growing awareness in the web development community of the needs of visually impaired, and other web users with mobility issues, there is a long way to go to making websites 100 per cent accessible, according to WebAIM, an organisation dedicated to assisting disabled people use the internet.
A study in 2004 showed that 81 per cent of websites failed to meet the most basic criteria for assisting the visually impaired; an organisation called WebAIM has produced a list of just 16 guidelines. But despite this, they’ve seen little overall improvement over the past 10 years.
I had a look around the WebAIM website for their list of guidelines, and found this one which is made up of 14 points.
(14 not 16. A typo in the Independent Tech article possibly?)
